: Re: How rough should a rough draft be For a long time I would edit chapters as I wrote them, to make them as complete as possible. Unfortunately this often resulted in me running out of steam

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as an addendum to the other answers here, especially Lauren Ipsum's excellent post

I think the answer here is a lot to do with that much trod advice of show don't tell

The first draft should simply be about telling the story as succinctly as possible. With rough pointers to the finer details of the characters behaviour.

In future drafts you take the story you have told and convert it into something that you show.

Personally I am trying to retrain myself to write quickly, so if I've got a scene in my mind that I can write the show part for, then I'll get that down, otherwise the aim should be (IMO!) to tell the story, ignoring the need to try to convert that into a show.

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